• Land_Strider@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’ve encountered these guys all my life. They are mostly small skittering puffy-stretches at a glance, but sometimes they can look like their red headed larger and snake-eating relatives at 4-5cm lengths.

    They are extremely soft to the touch, as if a very light breeze just brushed off your arm hair. What I didn’t know is that they are like cats in this behaviour:

    House centipedes have been observed to groom their legs by curling around and grooming them with their forcipules.